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Lot 34

Six Cypriot pottery bowls
6

28 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £2,422.50 inc. premium

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Six Cypriot pottery bowls
Early Bronze Age, circa 2500-1650 B.C.
Comprising a reserved slip ware bowl, with looped handle, pointed lug and a band of chevron decoration; two black topped red polished ware bowls of hemispherical form, with a small pierced side lug; a red and black polished ware bowl with small pierced lug; a bowl with incised chequered decoration and opposing pointed lugs; and a bowl with a band of incised lozenge decoration, 9.5cm- 12.5cm diam. (6)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Reserved slip ware bowl: The Desmond Morris Collection; Christie's London, 6 November 2001, lot 102.
Two black-topped bowls and incised bowl with pointed lugs: The Desmond Morris Collection; Christie's, London, 14 May 2002, lot 25 (part) and 27 (part).
The bowl with incised diamond decoration: Baroness Lena Jeger (1915-2007) collection, London, acquired prior to 1982.
G. Kyriacou collection, London, acquired from the above.

Published:
Reserved slip bowl: D. Morris, The Art of Ancient Cyprus, Oxford, 1985, p. 26, pl. 18.

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